Word: berettas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...order, "Everybody down on the floor. Don't move. Keep quiet. God is with us." One who did not obey was Mordechai Rahamim, 22, an ex-paratrooper whom El Al preferred to call an armed passenger but who was evidently a hired security agent. Holding a .22-caliber Beretta automatic, he jumped from an emergency exit and ran toward the attackers, firing as he went...
...murdered and the papal food taster was a Vatican fixture, had there been such concern for a Pontiff's safety. As always on foreign trips, Paul was accompanied by his bodyguard, Colonel Spartaco Angelini, commander of the Pontifical Gendarmerie, the Vatican police force. Angelini carried a 7.65-mm. Beretta in a shoulder holster, and under his own standing orders was prepared to shoot to kill to defend the Pope. At least 1,000 white-gloved, white-helmeted Colombian military policemen patrolled the Campo Eucanstico with rifles and submachine guns...
Foreigners in Saigon still congregate on the veranda of the Continental Hotel in the early evening, and there the talk is, as previously, all about the war. Many American civilians in Saigon have taken to carrying their own weapons-.357 Magnum revolvers, Beretta automatics, M-16 rifles, some privately owned and some issued by the military. Since many of the Americans apparently have never handled loaded weapons before and tend to gesture with the barrels as they talk, the guns sometimes go off by mistake...
...goes hunting for Marcello Mastroianni, 40, in a homicidal fantasy called The Tenth Victim, now being filmed in Rome. Studio technicians ad mit they're still trying to figure out how she's supposed to fire a double-barreled bra. Other ordnance for the film: a boomerang Beretta, a "poodle pistol," and possibly a "tummy...
...placed in an oxygen tent at the hospital. Minutes later he was dead, apparently of a heart attack. Found on Farouk's body were a gold wedding ring, a cigarette lighter, a watch, a pill box initialed 'F,' a pair of dark glasses, a loaded Beretta automatic, identity pa pers, and a billfold containing $115 in Italian lire and $2,500 in U.S. bills...